Tag: Quality

In my last post I wrote about how the Product Owner can help to increase the quality of the software without crossing the line, staying in the framework given to the Product Owner role. Although I wrote, there are plenty of articles about how developers can increase software quality, I still want to do a follow up on my last post. Just to have both sides covered.

So what do we have in our toolbox for developers? First there are plenty of tools and it would take me a while to describe them all. Therefore I will elaborate on just a couple of them in detail.

I assume the fact we are talking or thinking about quality means we want to write good software and don’t want our customer to find any bugs. Therefore we are all testing our software. It starts with the developer, who will run the code he just wrote and ends with somebody testing the complete software. I am writing somebody, because some people might not have dedicated testers in their project. That’s the point to start at – get a tester!

A week or two ago I got the feeling of hearing product owner complaining about software quality and developers talking more and more about fixing bugs and telling the product owner in the sprint review there “are still small things to do, to finally be done”. To be sure if my feeling was right, I asked the product owner for their opinion regarding the quality of the delivered software. I didn’t have to wait very long to receive answers to my question every single one telling me the same in different wording. In short “Yes quality sucks!”

Everyone dealing with Scrum or Agile Methods stumbles sooner or later over Extreme Programming practices like pair programming, code-review, continuous integration, unit- and acceptance tests, refactoring and test-driven development(short TDD) to name the best known. There are some more like behavior-driven development(BDD) for example and all practices mentioned are intended to help developers write better code. Continue reading Product Owner increasing software quality